Damn! I'm such a Yerka mania

As you might noticed, HAED extends its sale until June 14. And as my stitching fellows might know, Yerka's arts drive me crazy recently. I dream about them day and night and my craziness yells the hell out of me that made me become a sinful chart collector of Yerka. In this post, my sin will be revealed :)not know about other stitchers but for me, there are many charts that I bought but not post in this blog "yet" as I want to hide my sin away. But you know, sometimes sharing what you are craving for to others is also a good thing. In this post, my sin will be revealed :)) (Just for Yerka's :D). The charts will be divided into 3 sections: New Stash, Already in Stash and W.I.P:

1. New Stash:

A new release: "Waiting for a Tram"

"Strawberry Orchard"

"Attack at Dawn"

"Spring Labyrinth"

"String Theory"

2. Already in Stash:

"Between Heaven and Hell"

"Bibliodame"

"Room on the Loft"

"Bathyscape"

"Up from the Deep"

"Grand Piano"

"Amok Harvest"

"Four seasons"

"Boudoir"

"Falling water  Estate"

"Pocket Jungle Room"

"Watering Place"

"Swimming Lesson"

 3. W.I.P (SAL):

"Autumn"

So there are about 19 charts of Yerka that I am currently holding (and many more in my wish list, sigh~) which take me forever to finish but I am super happy! It does help me enhance my energy in stitching and I hope it happens the same to you? Tell me what you think!

xoxo
Gwen

Happy Anniversary to me and Happy New Stash!

Hi guys

This is very personal but today is our special anniversary and I got spoiled by my hubby. When HAED starts its 50% sale, my eyes stick to their site. Honestly, I surf there every single day while telling myself 'no more new chart, you've gotta to finish one' lol. My 'surfing hobby' caught my hubby's attention and he urged me to give him my wish list. But you know, I not even dare to count how many charts I have in my wish list (which i am sure that it will be even longer than our monthly grocery bills !(~^o^)~*~(^o^~). After refuse several times, I gave him my short list and here they are, newbies to my stash:

First, my all time favorite LAW:

Humor

Wind Machine

The Storm

The Call

One White Soul

Kitsune

And of course, new favorite artist: YERKA

Pocket Jungle Room (Look at those small little animals!)

Watering Place (looks like heaven to me)

Between Heaven and Hell (oh yeah)

Fallingwater Estate

From Mathew Steward:

A Mermaid

 From Selina Fenech

Merlins Temple (this was in my wish list forever since)

 Last but not least, fairy from the return Julie Fain!

Enchanted Glimpse

Yahoo! Feeling so exciting! I feel like living in fairy tales! Especially after watching "EPIC" this noon Lol

How about you guys? Successfully passed this sale?

xoxo

Dandelion Clock Dance: Fairy has wings!

Hi guys

Another update only three days after the last post, I know! While looking at my own progress, I feel so sorry for the fairy that lacks one of his wing! So I decided to stitch him the rest of the wing so that he can fly high!

Here you go:

This is how the fairy looks before

I hope you like how he looks now!

Enjoy!

Late update on Dandelion Clock Dance: Page 7 finish

Hi folks

Many apologies for late update on DCD ( I lost my stitching bug for a while), just a quick announcement that I have just finished page 7 which increased my finished pages to 4 and 14 (including 3 small partial pages) more to go. I do really hope that I can make it before the reward program of HAED close this August (find out here). Or I have to wait until Dec (which I hesitate). Anyone entered this program before? I am so curious. Btw, HAED is on 50% crazy sales, so make sure after giving "careful thought", you can go for it or give it a pass.

So here is my DCD to date:

 I am quite pleased with the result as seeing the giant dandelion comes to life. Really hope to be more productive in the next post.

Enjoy stitching!

Gwen

Storykeep The Wild Swans

Yes, I am working on a SK (HAED story keep) :-D

There is a reason why I put away DCD (Dandelion Clock Dance) and M&A (Merlin and Arthur) to focus on this project.  This will be a gift to my husband who always support me. I want to stitch this to congratulate him on his first step of reaching his scholar dream. 

He will go for his PhD this August and as a result we will move to NJ this autumn. So I decided to quit my job - the job that i love. This is a hard decision for me though. I know that there are many things that we might have to face in the future in such a new land but I will like to face it with him. 

We both grew up with the fairy tales of Hans Anderson and one of our favorite tales back to our childhood is "The Wild Swans" (the tale is about a princess who rescues her eleven brothers from a curse by an evil queen). So I went to HAED website, found this SK and started stitching this.

I really hope that I could finish and hand it to him before we leave to NJ. It would a perfect bookmark for him since he does not like reading books on Ipad like me :D

SK The Wild Swans by Yvonne Gilbert (click here to the chart)
Stitched on 25 count linen, 2 over 1 tent stitch
90 colors ( I change DMC 032 t0 DMC Metallic E5200)

Original painting

Mock-up

My stitching

The difficulties of mine while stitching this SK are the heavy confetti colors and the linen slubs with uneven weave. I have never done tent stitch before and another issue here is...I hardly see the swan at the bottom left...So a bit unhappy and very afraid that if this SK does not turn out right, I might have to find a backup plan for the gift :(

SAL: Autumn by Jacek Yerka 1st Post

Hi guys

Just for your information, this is the SAL that I join with my fellow blogger Pull the other thread. We will post our progress of this pattern on monthly 15th, goal free. I started stitching on page 54 (last page of the pattern and she will start on page 1 (you can find her post here). If you are interested in this SAL, you are most welcome to join us. It will be so fun!

So here is my preparation:

Autumn by Jacek Yerka ( please refer here to the chart)
Stitched on 25ct Dublin
Started date May 15th
1 x 1 FULL CROSS

Progress: Oh well, actually I started stitching this few days ago but I made a huge mistake about the placement so I was mostly frogging. I managed to start over again this morning and here is the result:

From distance

Close up

Basically, I completed page 54 since there was only few blocks to stitch. You might not able to see anything from here yet but good thing will come later. So keep your eyes on this blog for my next post on June 15th.

Leave a comment!

xoxo

Gwen

Dandelion Clock Dance: Some progress to date

Hi there

In the last update on DCD, I was working mostly on the sky and the dandelion fairies. So I was thinking maybe I should jump downward the pattern to change the atmosphere. As you might know, oh I am so bored at stitching peachy colors. As I decided to skip page 4-6 and move to page 7, I soon realize that the obsession of heavy confetti on the sky is nothing compare to the pages in the middle and the bottom of the pattern. Symbols keep changing all the time and I swear to God, the symbols even jumped into my dream. So I made another decision is to switch stitching projects between days to get more balance. It means that I will have less progress than normal and I figure out this is the only solution for me at the moment. So here is the progress:

Finished half of page 7 and a bit of the sky on page 4

Close up on the stitched part. There are about 70 colors within this half a page!

I hope you guys enjoy and any comment is appreciated.

I will take a break from DCD for a while to do a SAL project on Autumn by Jacek Yerka with Pull the other thread. The first post and details of this SAL  will be in this blog tomorrow!

Have fun!

Gwen